Nationwide, budget cuts have axed 627,000 public service jobs just since June 2009.... Tax dollars haven’t seemed this scarce in generations. Yet tens of billions of these scarce tax dollars are getting diverted....They’re subsidizing, directly and indirectly, the mega-million paychecks that go to the top executives at our nation’s biggest banks and corporations.

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/executive_excess_2012